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Show Ghe INDEPENDENT. D. a lOHKkON. Publish. 8PRINQVILLE. UTAH Of two evils, don't choose both. It's all off. Lipton has a rabbit's foot this time. A city that is set upon a hill cannot be drowned out by a flood. The colleges are making our pron-inent pron-inent citizens happy by degrees. A genuine sympathetic strike wb( n the clock strikes the hour to quit. The man who knows nothing & usually the one who insists on telling tell-ing it. Never kiss a girl by mistake. At least don't let her know that it was a mistake. A Beta Theta Pi convention Is coming. com-ing. This must be the father of all the breakfast foods. Don't envy John D. Rockefeller. He has a stomach that refuses to digest anything he likes to eat The publisher of "Who's Who In Servia" is working day and night to get his new edition ready. The Countess of Yarmouth appears to be giving her earl enough money to keep him quiet anyway. The man who thteks stocks can't go any lower is generally able to demolish de-molish his theory by buying some. The Sultan of Sokoto is making it necessary for British officers to regret to report. Why won't these sultans be good? The distinction between the upper classes and the common, herd now is that the upper classes wear panamas and pajamas. If a burglar could realize on the value val-ue of stolen property as given out by his victim, te would never have to burgle again. The names of the new Servian ministry min-istry bear a striking resemblance to the list of hospital victims after a Paterson riot. As long as your sweetheart finds fault with you, you are safe. But when she finds fault in you, be sure to look for another girl. King Peter at Geneva was "happy to meet the brave representatives of the Servian army." King Alexander at Belgrade wasn't. Boston has "a society young man" ;who has not worn a hat for three years. He probably doesn't wish to bide his magnificent brain. I The estimates of the population of Feklu vary from 500,000 to 1,600,000. A slight discrepancy of 1,100,000 ,'doesn't bother the Celestials a little bit ; "Doctor or sacred theology" is the juvsw Line iresiuwru uj vuiuuiuia um- Iversity on Dr. Gordon of Boston. But (isn't all theology sacred to some-tbody? some-tbody? ' Woman Is the geniu-j of compromise; compro-mise; she begins by wanting her son to be President; sne ends by being satisfied to have him pass the plate in church. A million gallons of whisky were destroyed de-stroyed by fire in Glasgow. Fortunately Fortu-nately the destruction of all this whisky whis-ky was accomplished with the loss of :nly seven lives. Death on a white horse seems to have changed his seat to a racing automobile. At least that's what the returns from that big French race seem to indicate. The German scientists who have been studying American agriculture as it is to be seen in Chicago will have an extensive knowledge of the tare and wild oats crops. The experienced bachelor of the New York Press remarks that it's queer how all rosy lips look so much alike and yet taste so different. Hasn't he learned yet that he should never tell? Rev. Matt S. Hughes says the man who is part of an epic is greater than the man who writes an epic. "It is to be hoped that the people who are writing epics ill now turn to nobler and better things. Pope Leo is getting a good deal of comfort just now out of the Italian proverb: "The announcement of one's death always adds years to one's life.'' If this be so, the aged pontiff is good for a least a round century. Mayor Jones of Toledo, has a bed 'rigged up with mosquito netting and sleeps on the roof of his house. The Toledo office seeker must be an especially es-pecially determined specimen of the type If such expedients are necessary to escape him. A Brooklyn man objects to a memorial park in Plymouth square in honor of Henry Ward Beecher for the reason that he was not a man of national reputation. A lot of old subscribers sub-scribers would like to know who it was that made Brooklyn famous. A" New York poet has been elected president of a railroad. He will probably prob-ably have a grand career. A man who can work his way up through poetry must have great stuff In him. If Mme. Calve no longer feels a desire de-sire to visit the dear Americans the only Inference must be that she now has as much money as she wants. Camille Flammarion has made the startling discovery that we are gradually grad-ually losing our stars. Hitch your wagon to one before it is too late! The Human Pin Cushion, who had a highly successful career as a dime museum freak, and who lately died in New York, left a fortune of $200, 000 all pin money, as it were. The St Louis judge who has decided that a woman can lawfully extract money from her husband's pocket should have said "may," of course. When you lend ' a man money. If. you dont insist' upon his paying It back be thinks you are a fool; if you 4o, he thinks you are his enemy. A COOLIE Apt pescription of the Island "of Jamaica, Where Orientals Find Prosperity and Create an Atmosphere of Romance Two Cases in Point (Special Correspondence.) "This," recently remarked Joseph Chamberlain, England's colonial secretary, secre-tary, as he placed a finger on a map showing Britain's possessions in the West Indies, "is the paradise of the Hindoo coolie. "And there, too," added one of his hearers, "those same orientals have created an atmosphere that fairly reeks with romance." The American or European who has spent sufficient time in Jamaica or Trinidad to become acquainted with the ways of the thousands of Hindoo laborers on the plantations and the coolie tradesmen in the towns invariably inva-riably makes the same assertions. To prove the first he usually quotes the case of Ram Sal and as evidence of the latter he tells the story of a rajah's son who turned coolie for love's sake. Thirty years ago a Hindoo of low caste Ram Sal by name, living in a plateau town of India, found himself Inextricably in debt to a bunnia a usurious money lender. He had been bound in his boyhood for the debt of his grandfather and after working for nearly twenty years to clear it he learned to his distress that instead of becoming smaller the obligation had steadily Increased. Ram Sal saw starvation staring himself him-self and his family in the face, and so, when a European, coming to the village, told of a place across the "black water" where a Hindoo could earn as much as 25 cents a day and after binding himself to work for eight years on a plantation would be freed of both his contract and his debt, Ram Sal straightway prepared to follow the d ooUe OHi:OPverf coolie contractor whither he led and the bunnia commanded. The ship that carried Ram Sal and his family arrived in course of time at Trinidad, and there he worked for six years, the planter in the meantime mean-time feeding him on rice and clothing him, and the agent of the bunnia seeing see-ing to it that until every cent of Ram's indebtedness was paid not a cent of his hire reached his pocket, but was turned over instead to the agent by Ram's employer. At the end of the sixtb year Ram Sal felt the jingle of coin In his hands for the first, for the debt of a few rupees that his grandfather had contracted con-tracted when he took Ram's grandmother grand-mother to wife was wiped out. The ring of the coins stirred up a strange desire in the coolie's heart it awakened awak-ened his ambition and he vowed then and there that he would be rich some day and a planter himself. To that goal, during the remaining two years of his indenture, Ram Sal saved every penny that he earned. At the end of that time it was pitiably small something less than a half thousand dollars but it wa3 more money than Ram Sal had ever owned before, and, what was more important, it was sufficient for the execution of his present purpose, the establishment establish-ment of himself as a silversmith in the Hindoo quarter cf Port of Spain, in which business he prospered rap-Idly. rap-Idly. Ram had not forgotten how fields were made to yield their increase. As a planter he so directed the labors of OUR WEIRS TO THRONES. Many Persons of Royal and Noble Birth Present in America. A Brooklyn man who is in the wine trade says that he is the real heir to the throne of Servia. But he proposes to do nothing about It. He is wise. For the average person the trade of royalty at Belgrade would be a rather trying matter. At the same time we have many persons of royal and noble descent "In our midst." We all know people who, "if they had their rights" would be the duke of this, the earl of that or the baron something else. Many a good citizen of this republic secretly rejoices over his real or supposed sup-posed descent from picturesque ancestors. ances-tors. Just think of the Society of the Descendants of Royalty, that flourish somewhere or other! In some cases experts in heraldry could point out a significant detail in the arms hanging up in Boston or Philadelphia dining-rooms. dining-rooms. New York Evening Sun. Took Temporary Service. A Scotchman traveling in Russia Rus-sia attended service in a Greek church and had his attention riveted by a' gigantic attendant In the procession, who flourished an asperge with great skill, uttering utter-ing the while some words which seemed familar to the tourist's ear. Listening Intently, he made out the sentence to run: "It's Jist a pickle o' clean cold water. ' If it does ye nae guid, it does ye nae halrm." After the service he sought the attendant, who took him Into a side chamber and disclosed himself as a Presbyterian Scotchman who- had wandered In many lands and bad temporarily takes service with the local Greek priest. PARADISE the hundred or more coolies indentured inden-tured to him that his plantation soon became noted as one of the most productive pro-ductive In the valley. . Ram Sal was now fairly started on his road to fortune and each succeeding suc-ceeding step that he took brought him nearer to it. Year by year he added to Lis possessions, sometimes a plantation plan-tation often real estate in Port of Spain, where he set himself up in a mansion, whence he went about directing di-recting his ever increasing interests. Thus Ram Sal prospered until two years ago, when, old in years, he died, and when his beirw came to reckon up the estate they found it to be worth nearly $1,000,000. That is why Mr. Chamberlain, who knows these things, spoke of his king's West Indian possessions as the coolie's paradise. But the other man called them the field of romance because be-cause of the - story of a rajah's son and many more like unto it. Here is the story: . The eldest son and heir of a rapah of one of the small states of Rajpu-tana Rajpu-tana fell so violently in love with a oeautiful maiden he bad seen on the streets of his father's capital that he laid aside all thoughts of his own high caste and her equally low condition and proceeded to woo her. Everything Every-thing went well with the lovers for weeks, until one of the prince's ret Inue, spying upon him, found him keeping a tryst with the girl. The rajah was prompt ly Informed and, enraged at hU heir's loss of caste, determined to wipe out the" disgrace that the son had brought upon him self and his family. With the craftl ness of the oriental the rajah receivedF his son with allTT the affection of a Vtsr wom devoted parent until he discovered, through spies, the next meeting place of the lovers. Then, as they were seated in a secluded pagoda, a band - of the palace guards burst suddenly in upon them, and without warning first slew the maiden and then turned upon the prince. But the latter was too quick for the soldiers. Seizing his sword, he managed to cut his way clear and escaped into the city, where he hid. During the , weeks that energetic search was made for him he kept himself him-self under cover, and until the efforts of his father relaxed did he dare crawl far from his hiding place. Even then he was in great danger, and. realizing that he could not hope to remain re-main in his father's realm, he decided to get as far away as possible. This he did by disguising and presenting himself to the nearest coolie contractor, con-tractor, and a few weeks later he was on his way to Jamaica. He had worked as a common field laborer for five years before his story accidentally became known. Over a certain number of coolies another coolie Is usually placed as overseer One day the rajah's son and his overseer over-seer disagreed over a piece of work, and the latter was , on the point of using a whip on the former when the plantation's , superintendent, a young Scotchman, interfered. The gratitude of the laborer was unbounded.' For once he lost his oriental stoicism and tears came into his eyes, as he said: "Master, you have saved me from a great disgrace." The superintendent's curiosity was aroused, and although the Hindoo endeavored en-deavored to slink away he was pressed so hard that he finally explained bis remark. , "You have saved me from a great disgrace," he said. "I, a rajah's son, to be struck by a Hindoo of low caste!" Then the whole story, which the Scotchman verified later on, came out. The hero of it Is still employed on an interior plantation in Jamaica. MADE THE FLAG PRESENTABLE. Soldier's Wife Sat Up All Night to , Mend the Tattered Banner. One of our leading Generals, on his return from the Philippines, brought with him a flag all tattered with bullets, bul-lets, which he had captured from the enemy, and which he showed with pride to his family and household. , Next rjornlng this trophy was to be presented to the commander-in-chief. When he came to look for the flag it was missing. "Where is my flag?" he cried In consternation. con-sternation. "What has become of it?" His wife brought it to him with a smile of proud satisfaction. "I sat up all night and mended it, and now it looks nearly as good as new," she said. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Importance or Home Training. There is a good deal of preaching nowadays about the irreverence of young people and their impatience with religious life. The people who have children are more to blame for this than anybody else. If they would look after the training and education of their own people instead of adopting machine methods of kindergarten and Sunday schopl Instruction in piety probably there would be a very marked change in public sentiment to ward the things which used to be re garded as sacred. Wager Easily Won. A former assistant secretary of the treasury has gone on a wedding .trip that is to oe paid for by a friend as a result of an old agreement that the first to marry should go on a tour at the othr's expens ' jKBSA- nFjGZ N -i Love. w -WyVv My Jr Irt I bid the answer ttKvK HovOI ars Love's marvels wrought? .OkJfl Two Bearts to one pulse beating, Twofeplrits with one thought! """"CvV And me how love cometh? 'TiaHhere unsought,' unsent! Ml e?Kv And ttll me how love goeth? fllvj X C r Thawas Bot love which went. Jl I ftyW d Tl'By an Unknown German Pet- Mrs. Geraldlne Banks, widow, of Chicago and her daughter Dpjotby; were at Rye Beach. Mrs. Banks had enough money something like three millions to make her last name eminently emin-ently fitting. Her father, who had made a fortune in transforming rank Chicago fat into delicate French soap, had given her the millions outright at her marriage with John Banks, now deceased. Father and daughter didn't see each other often in the latter days. They moved in different social circles. Mrs. Banks had a great gray stone palace within sound of the lashing lake waters, while the father preferred to live in something little bigger than a cottage under the very shadow of the chimneys and within smelling range, so to speak, of the factory that had brought him his fortune. Dorothy Bnaks was delightfully pretty, aristocratic looking withal, and as sweetly disposed toward humanity in general as a girl possibly could be whose mother was constantly reminding remind-ing her of her station in life and ttiat the hoi-polloi were Interesting chiefly at a distance. Mrs. Banks wished her daughter to marry, as she put it, a gentleman and a man of lineage. There came to Rye Beach that summer sum-mer young Peabody Standish of Boston. He was a Harvard man and one whose ancestors' names had been borne on the rolls of that school ever since John Harvard's day.. Now, Peabody Standish was a fine young fellow, athletic, athle-tic, handsome and with a manner which New England fogs and frosts had failed to chill. Peabody Standish and Dorothy Banks met. The Boston man liked the beauty and the breeziness of the western girl, and Dorothy, with never a tltought of what her mother had said about aristocracy, liked the eastern, man for himself. ( It is perhaps needless to say that" Mrs. Banks looked on approvingly. The young fellow from Boston lingered longer at Rye Beach that summer than he had intended. He knew in a general way who Mrs". Banks of Chicago was, for he had a bit of law business with a Chicago client in which some of the Banks' holdings had figured. He didn't make any inquiries. Had he momentarily felt so Inclined a lcok at Dorothy would have checked him, for she was sweet and winsome enough to make up for a family skeleton in every closet of a Chicago mansion. Dorothy Banks and Peabody Standish were engaged. Mrs. Banks "and, her daughter were back in Chicago and the marriage was set for the, spring. Once in a while through the winter a shadow would tome into Dorothy's face. "Mamma," she would say, "we ought to have told Peabody about grandpa. I know he's what you call vulgar, but he's good and kind-hearted and would be affectionate if you'd only let him. "Your grandfather and Mr. Standish will have to meet some day, Dorothy, but there's no particular hurry about it.- Everything will be all right if you do as I tell you." . ' And Dorothy though secretly troubled, did what long custom had insured her to do, to abide by -what her mother said. t They were married In-April. Peabody Pea-body Stcndish, yielding to his mother-in-law's request, agreed to make Chicago his home, and to look after Dorothy. her property Interests. With Dorothy Immediately after the wedding he went abroad and remained there eight months. When they returned to Chicago he secured an office and buckled down to business. " - It was Standish's second day at his work. He and Dorothy were living with Mrs. Banks. At 5 o'clock that afternoon the Banks carriage was sent to Standish's office to take him home. Peabody would have preferred walking, walk-ing, but he took his seat in the icar-riage icar-riage and started homeward. aV a street corner he . saw the bent (out sturdy figure of an old man. who (was : a pdding along with his eyes on the .md. Standish looked at the bowed e for a moment, tnen a pieasea came into his eyes and he shouted a tuher peremptory "fa top to tne o, hman. Standish jumped from the cariage and In an instant was by the sl of the old fellow on the sidewalk, ? . , i 1 V a was grasping aim uy me uauu. 'Mr. Chandler, is it really you?" i Standish, with a ring of genuine pleasure in his voice and his eyes falily dancing. 'Well, bless me, if it ain't young Stftndish Yes, i'ts me, Jabez Chandler, air right, but I didn't suppose you'd reknember me." Remember you. Do you suppose I'S forget the man who came to my Mrs. Banks. father's rescue and made It possible for me to go through college? Forget you? I should think not." "Well, Mr. Standish, your grand father did me a turn in the past, when I was a boy, that I ain't forgot yet and ain't likely to." "I looked you up as soon as I reached Chicago, Mr. Chandler, and found you were in California." The old man smiled a little. Standish beckoned to the coachman. The man drove up alongside the curb and Standish, turning to the old man, said:' "You're coming home to dinner with me to-night. I won't take no for an answer. You must meet my wife," and Standish fairly forced the old man into the carriage. Jabez Chandler had a queer ex pression on his face as he mounted the steps of the Banks mansion, arm in arm with the younger man. Standish lea him Into the great room off the hall. The younger man was as ex uberant as a schoolboy. "Dorothy,' he called, "Dorothy." uorotny came irom a recess m a dim corner of the room. "Dorothy, I've brought home the best friend, barring my parents, I ever had in my life. This is Mr. Chandler, dear." Dorothy came forward, her face showing white in the half light of the room, and with a frightened look in her - eyes. Then the look fled, she went forward. "Grandpx," she said, and held out both hands. The1 old man kissed - her quickly with some thing of yearning in his eyes. There was something stern In Standish's face. "Dorothy," he said. y wny aia i noi Know tnis r jjorotny turnea, ana tne old man quickly left the room. "You ought to have known, dear," she Said. don t know what to tell you. We thought " I think I see It, but I don't believe you thought it. You told me something once of your mother's ideas of birth and education and refinement. Thank God, Dorothy, those things don't make a man forget his friends nor make him ashamed of his relatives. I know you're not ashamed, dear; I think know all about it," and he kissed her softly. Standish turned from his wife and went straight to the room of Mrs Banks. He was there about fifteen minutes. That night in a box at the opera an old man in a business suit sat at the very front by the side of his daughter. Two young people in evening dress and looking happy, sat just behind. A daughter is a daughter, come what will, and there was actually a soft light that night In the eyes of Mrs, Geraldlne Banks, for that day her mind had learned a lesson and her heart had lost a burden. Edward B. Clark In the Chicago Record-Herald. A Theological Poser. An eminent divine, discussing the labor question with a friend, had, an Interested listener in his little boy. Durine a Dause in " the conversation the child said, earnestly: "I suppose, father, that even God has to have workmen to help Him do all He has to do. Are the angels God's workmen?" ' The minister, smiling at the child's serious Interest in the great question of the day, laid his hand kindly pn his son's head and said: T think they are, m son." "Father." said the boy, "do you sup li 1.1 58 i t . 4MB pose that the angels ever strike?" TO CHECK Irrigation Expert Satisfied that American Rivers Can Be and Used for Experts who have made a study of the water supply of the United States have had their attention directed again to the vagaries of the American rivers. The recent floods in the W est. especially impressed J. P. Thomson, honorary secretary of the Royal Geographical Geo-graphical Society of Australasia, who, In making a tour of the world, visited this country especially to study its irrigation ir-rigation systems. The method advocated by Dr. Thom son, which has been employed with success by Australian and East Indian engineers, is that of getting control of the tributaries and headwaters by means of dams, reservoirs and cutoffs, for in the lower section of a great river it is difficult to keep the stream within bounds. Those wno have examined the mat ter before have found the chief objection objec-tion In the expense which would be entailed en-tailed by such a system. Some of the experts of a generation ago said that the benefit derived would not justify the expenditure. Yet the Mississippi and its tributaries flow at places through lands which are almost des erts and which irrigation might reclaim. re-claim. The territory which surrounds the Red and the Arkansas rivers is often parched with heat until it has the aridity of a Sahara. In the summer sum-mer of 1901 droughts caused the loss of -millions of dollars because of the failure of the corn crop. Since the earlier Investigations it has been found, too, that water stored in reservoirs reser-voirs may be converted into power to an extent unknown before the recent development of electrical science. Among the methods advocated for the prevention of floods are: The im- """"" " PLAN FOR REGULATING FLOODS. JjjfReservoirs formed by holding back the Surplus watet by means of dans placed above the heads of na-vlfatioa OO Reservoirs on either side of the streams, connected in flood time with the channel by sluices Tennessee River to be connected at head with Mississippi by a canal, thereby diverting its course, and holding hack its waters until other tributaries have discharged dis-charged theirs. provement of the channel, the building of embankments and the pumping of the water from the bottoms. The plan of placing reservoirs along the course of streams for taking off the surplus waters is based on the idea that the difference between what a river will hold and the excess is relatively small. The reservoirs provide for the last few feet, which are like the straw on the back of the riparian camel. In all the great valleys there are floods in winter and in spring. In summer, owing to the parched condition of the ground, most of the water is absorbed almost as soon as It falls. In winter and the early spring the soil is impervious, either on account of the glare ice, which covers it, or through the action of the frost. The June rise Is one of the conditions condi-tions in the valley of the Mississippi, where, owing to the nature of the soil, a large proportion of the spring rains are discharged into the stream. One-fourth One-fourth of all the rainfall which falls in the surrounding watershed finds its way to. the Ohio river, and the Missouri Mis-souri conveys one-eighth. - Three methods are proposed by Dr. Thomson for the control of the rivers the building of dams above the heads of navigation, the running. of water Into more or less natural reservoirs reser-voirs at either bank, and the diversion of channels. These plans may be used in accordance with local conditions. Where a stream flows into a moderately mod-erately deep valley, for instance, a dam of masonry may be built across from the base of the hills on one side to tba elevation on the other. The structure should be of heavy masonry and it should have a foundation founda-tion on solid rock. In it, at intervals, are sluiceways. The flood will back up behind the dam in a natural reservoir, and enough of it will be permitted to pass to represent the normal flow of the river, which may be determined by calculation. The headwaters of the Missouri and the Mississippi could be When the King Kissed Her. King Edward IV. of England was always al-ways in need of money and was in the habit of personally appealing to his wealthiest subjects for contributions. An old chronicle relates this story: "King Edward had called before him a widow much abounding in substance and no less grown in years, of whom he merrily demanded that she gladly would give him toward his great charges. 'By my troth,' quoth she, 'for thy lovely countenance thou shalt have even 20.' The king, looking scarce for half that sum, thanked her and lovingly kissed her. Whether the 3avor of his breath did so comfort her stomach or she esteemed the kiss of a king so precious a jewel, she swore incontinently that he should have 20 more, which she with the same will paid that she offered it" ' A Melancholy joke. "I wonder why crape is the emblem of sorrow?" asked the handsome young widow. "Probably- because three feet of It makes a graveyard," replied the sav-afHtli sav-afHtli bad elor. FLOODS. the Disastrous Overflow of Stored in Reservoirs Irrigation, regulated in this way. Along the course of the Missouri, in the neighborhood of the cities which are often liable to the ravages of the Hoods, reservoirs might be maintained. One of the plans for diminishing the water of the Ohio near the confluence of macy of its large tributaries is to divert the Tennessee to the westward into the Mississippi direct This would do much to prevent the Ohio from overflowing the bottom lands of the State, of which it forms the southern boundary. Reservoirs might be constructed near Cincinnati to further aid in stemming stem-ming the course of the Ohio floods. The Red river, which is navigable only as far as Shreveport, and that only at certain seasons, and the Arkansas, Ar-kansas, which for 650 miles is open to small boats only, could be restrained in times of floods by the use of dams at their upper portions at points where the geological formation would permit. per-mit. In dispensing the waters which are thus accumulated the government might be able to get back a part of the expenditure by charging for the Irrigation Irri-gation privileges. Experiments which have been made In India and in Australia Aus-tralia have convinced engineers that the plan is entirely feasible in those countries. Investigation and experi ment, Dr. Thomson thinks, will dem onstrate to the authorities here the merit of similar schemes for conserv ing and retaining the rainfall. "The United States," he said, "has made wonderful progress in irrigation in the great desert and other parts of the West, which appeared at first to be incapable of supporting any form of vegetable life. The soil contained rich soluble salts, and all that was neces sary was enough water to dissolve them. "These suggestions which I have made are much like those which I have already made for a scheme which I was asked to prepare for Queensland. I see no reason why American engin eers should not devise some means for conserving surplus waters of the great rivers of their country. The sites which I have suggested are purely tentative ten-tative or ideal, and 'may on detailed examination of the localities prove to be impracticable owing to the existing geographical conditions and the geo logical structure of the country, such being only determinable by actual sur vey. "That the flood waters of rivers may be controlled by means of such reser voirs there can be no manner of doubt whatever; the only question of importance impor-tance to be considered being one of ways and means. "The Initial expenses are no doubt great, but if constructed with a view to their future utilization for industrial purposes, Lood controlling reservoirs may be made to serve not only the primary purpose for which they were intended, but they may become an important im-portant factor in the economic development devel-opment of the States. For instance, they should, if possible, be so located and so constructed as to be utilized for the purpose of local Irrigation and the raising of power, and if built on such ,a plan they would bring in a re turn on the original outlay and very ,probably pay in the long run. "It is difficult, if indeed possible, to estimate the enormous value of the rainfall of a country, but this is greatly great-ly decreased if the precious waters that periodically tall upon the lands are permitted to run waste into the sea, and, in doing so, to cause ofter great damage to property and not infrequently in-frequently loss of life.'' New York Herald. Buffalo Citizens Grateful. The members of the Buffalo Merchants' Mer-chants' exchange and other citizens have presented to Col. . Thomas W. Symons a handsome silver tea service and a gold watch and chain. CoL Symons Sy-mons has been in charge of the government gov-ernment works for the improvement of the harbor of Buffalo for the pas eight years and has now been transferred trans-ferred to Washington. He has completed com-pleted what is claimed to be the longest long-est breakwater system in the world, thus giving Buffalo the largest artificial artifi-cial harbor. The Acme of Meekness. McJigger Chicken-hearted? , Well, I should say; he's the limit. Thingumbob Thingum-bob Is tnat so? McJigger Nothing can make him fight. Why, I've even seen him let a man cheat him out of his turn in the barber shop and he never said a word. . Demand for Schools in China. The Rev. H. P. Perkins, of Pao-ting-fu, China, says there is a great demand for native ' schools . and churches there. LITERARY NOTES. ,While Everybody's Magazine is making a reputation for striking covers, cov-ers, the cover design for July being an unusually attractive piece of work, It is the liberal supply of high class reading matter between the covers that is placing this publication in the front row. Mr. Ridgway and Mr. Thayer are Justifying the wisdom of their former employers, who paid them the highest salaries in their respective re-spective lines, and are surely making a splendid success of Everybody's Magazine. The July number is especially espe-cially strong In fiction, while the oth er departments are even better than in the past. Leslie s W sekly improves with age. the timely illustrations of current events being a feature which is most popular among the readers. While the July Century is distinc tively a fiction number, there being a number of well written pieces of fiction, there is no lack of solid read ing to be found In this most estimable magazine. Nothing could be more timely, in view of the bicentennial of Wesley, than the life of the founder of Methodism, by C. T. Winchester, professor of English literature at Wesleyan university, and well known on other platforms as a lecturer. The July issue brings, too, the long expec- tated Unpublished Letters by Sir Walter Scott," edited by Horace P. Hutchinson, with notes by Mrs. Mary Anne Watts Hughes, to whom the letters were written, and an introduc tory sketch of Mrs. Hughes by her grandson, Mr. W. H. Hughes, the American Am-erican brother of the famous "Tom Hughes." Poems from the pen of Ed ward Markham and John Burroughs are also to be found In this number, while the notable illustration of the month is the full-page Timothy Cole trontispiece engraving of Menippus, by Velasquez, the seventh in the series se-ries of old Spanish masters. Apropos of Mr. Chamberlain's Im perial tariff propositions, the Review of Reviews for July declares that the time has come when the high tariff wall between Canada and the United States ought to be battered down.. The United States, says the editor, should propose a reciprocity which should ultimately, if possible, be brought to the point of full commer cial union. Mr. F. W. Stokes, whose first piv tures In color from the Antarctic will be seen in the August issue of The Century, has had three paintings ac cepted and well placed in the Champ de Mars salon in Paris this spring. The Review of Reviews for July gives many interesting facts in connection con-nection with the Obrenovitch dynasty In Servia, which came to so shocking an end on July 11. The prospects of the new reign and other topics related re-lated to political conditions and transformations trans-formations in southeastern Europe are editorially discussed in this number. For the long, warm days, on the sands, by the lake, in the country, St. Nicholas has provided a notably rich and full July issue to please the girls and boys in many lands. A summer magazine should have a decidedly out-of-doors flavor; and that is what distinguishes dis-tinguishes Ralph Henry Barbour's "A Pair of Poachers," a story for boys re freshingly off . the beaten track. Frances Courtenay Baylor's "In the Cavalry" pictures army life attractively attractive-ly for both girls and boys. "Marjory's First Celebration" is a pretty Fourth of July story. The July St. Nicholas is also unusually rich in interesting and valuable articles not strictly classed as stories. COULD DO NOTHING WITH HIM. Gov. 'Bob" Taylor's Opinion of Bolt ing District Leader. Gov. "Bob" Taylor, the fiddler ex ecutive of Tennessee, was the auto- ;rat of Democratic politics in his State. A factional split In the party seemed likely on one occasion because be-cause of the sulkness of one of tha district leaders, who was noted for his irritating stubbornness, and Gov. "Bob" was appealed to by Senator Carmack and other prominent State politicians to bring the "insurrecto" into line. But the "fiddler" had often tried his authority ""and his arts on the refractory refrac-tory lieutenant in vain. 'You can't, do anything with that fellow," he said to other leaders. "He is like a boil; devilish disagreeable, but you can't sit on him." New York Times. KNEW THE VALUE OF TEARS. How Little Piece of Femininity Dis comfited Boy Enemies. The eternal feminine knows at a very early age the value of tears In softening masculine obdurateness. A little girl of five was plodding along to school when she saw three little boys "laying for her" with a pile of fresh-mown grass. She was little, alone, and knew she stood no chance of passing these naughty bits or mas culinity without trouble. So she resorted re-sorted to ruse. Putting her arm over her eyes, she walked slowly along In a grief-stricken attitude. The boys hesitated.. One started forward wltfc his arm full of the grass, but the other oth-er two grabbed him, saying: "Stop, Jimmy, can't yer see she's cryin'." THE LONGING FOR HOME. Nostalgia Recognized by Physicians af. a Dreaded Foe. Nostalgia that is what the doctors call it In ordinary phrase It is known as homesickness. It is a real disease. Strong men die of it in the Philippine Islands. To all ordinary diagnosis they are well. No organic trouble is apparent appar-ent The patient Is literally sick for home, and unless he is sent home he grows worse, and often dies. Officers of the army, private soldiers, civilians, old, middle-aged and young all these are subject to the Illness. It is no boy's malady. The American In the Philippines Is like a fish out of water. Edward Everett Ever-ett in his "Man Without a Country-shows Country-shows us how hardly an American can give up America. There is' so much here to get homesick for. Odd Discovery. . A tailor's bill nearly 5,000 years old Is one of the quaintest find3 that the Nippur expeditions of the University of Pennsylvania have ever made, says the Philadelphia Record. This bill Is on a limestone tablet and the clothes that it describes were temple robes a king's gift to his priests. In all 92 robes are mentioned on the tablet Among the items are: Twelve white robes of the temple, 11 robes of the house of his lady, 10 collars of the house of his lady, 10 pure gold collars. 13 white robes, 4 scented robes. Many of the words of the inscriptions are indecipherable. Archaeologists think that these are technical words, peculiar pe-culiar to certain parts of dress, words like, 'for instance, such terms of the modern dressmaker as "applique," "herring boning." "piping," ' "passementerie" "passe-menterie" and "i watch." |